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... is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct was, in fact, a moral life after all. Written after Tolstoy's religious conversion, the novella is widely considered to be one of his masterpieces. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...
Literature
The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine – a momentary flash of light, which made everything clear to me. It was something like that which might happen to a man who, after vainly attempting, by a false plan, to build up a statue out of a confused heap of small pieces of marble, suddenly guesses at the figure they are intended to form by the shape of the largest piece; and then, on beginning to set up the statue, finds his guess confirmed by the harmonious joining in of the various pieces. (Extract from Chapter 1)...
Religion
...Het gaat hier om een (ingekorte) Nederlandse vertaling van het klassieke werk van Leo Tolstoy. Een aristocratische vrouw verlaat haar ongelukkig huwelijk voor een nieuwe liefde....
Fiction, Literature
...Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His views transcended th...
Short stories
The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocrat in love with a Cossack girl. This text was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one of the finest in the language....
...This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named Shakespeare's attitude to the working classes by Ernest Crosby and extracts of a letter by George Bernard Shaw. (Summary by enko)...
Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature
...Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among Russian writers including Ivan Turgenev, and heralded the young T...
Biography
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, Anna's husband considers drastic measures to address the flagrant infidelity of his wife, while Kitty and Levin meet once again in Moscow to their mutual discomfiture. (Summary by Mary Anderson and MaryAnn)...
Fiction
...WAR AND PEACE b b b b by y y y y Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ... electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 CHAPTER I THE BATT... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF BORODINO, with the ... ...of the com- batants, feeling himself wounded and understanding that the 5 Tolstoy matter is no joke but concerns his life, throws down his rapier, an... ...hat rule. This contradiction arises from the fact that military science 7 Tolstoy assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its num- bers....
Excerpt: War and Peace: Fourteen by Leo Tolstoy.
...War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Ka...
War stories, Romance
...TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Seven by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett Part S... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett Part Seven Chapter 1 The Levins... ... about his book here, and that consequently all his ideas about it were 5 Tolstoy muddled and had lost their interest for him. One advantage in this ... ...rk. He’s a distinguished scien- tific man from Petersburg,” said Levin. 7 Tolstoy “Yes; wasn’t it his article you were praising so? Well, and after t...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about, and there was nothing to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother, and most of all Levin, who could not think of the approaching event without terror, began to be impatient and uneasy. Kitty was the only person who felt perfectly calm and happy....
... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett Part T... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett Part Two Chapter 1 At the end o... ...le of his observations. “The commencement of the tuberculous process we 5 Tolstoy are not, as you are aware, able to define; till there are cavities,... ...e proposed tour, she began talking of the preparations for the journey. 7 Tolstoy Chapter 2 Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that t...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring came on she grew worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in. The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked. He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself....
...WAR AND PEACE b b b b by y y y y Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This ... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Port... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Serie... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, J... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK SIX: 1808-10 CHAPTER I PRINCE AND... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK SIX: 1808-10 CHAPTER I PRINCE ANDREW HAD SPENT two years c... ...rawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an 5 Tolstoy aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. On... ... to sleep. He read awhile and then put out his candle, but relit it. It 7 Tolstoy was hot in the room, the inside shutters of which were closed. He w...
Excerpt: War and Peace: Six by Leo Tolstoy.
...WAR AND PEACE b b b b by y y y y Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Port... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 CHAPTER I ABSOLUTE C... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 CHAPTER I ABSOLUTE CONTINUITY of motion is no... ...is altered and presents an intensive movement which first increases and 5 Tolstoy then slackens. What was the cause of this movement, by what laws wa... ...r some distance, though the collision had deprived it of all its force. 7 Tolstoy The Russians retreated eighty miles—to beyond Moscow— and the Frenc...
Excerpt: War and Peace: Eleven by Leo Tolstoy.
...War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Ka...
...rom hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly try to find the road. When he returns, he attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. (Wikipedia)...
Historical Fiction
...In 1908 Leo Tolstoy organized a school for peasant children, age 10-13, in his house. During lessons he expounded them the most clear and important passages from Gospels. From those conversations Tolstoy composed that book. (Summary ...